Is DeSantis “Evil,” Or He Just Another Huckster Living Off Our Morally- and Intellectually-Challenged?

The meme here got me thinking.

It’s hard to determine Ron DeSantis’ true motives.  He knows that he has broad appeal with uneducated people who have no compassion whatsoever for the billions of non-white, non-Christians around the globe, and whose numbers, we’re now learning, are huge.  And he’s ridden a rocket ride accordingly, threatening to become America’s 47th president.

We were not aware of this before Trump was elected in 2016.

When I came across the meme here, I had my usual response: Is DeSantis in any way different from bazillionaire televangelists like Joel Osteen, aggressively moving the assets of his dumb-as-f*** parishioners to his own bank account?

Is he any worse?  Any better?  If you have no integrity, there’s nothing preventing you from using people’s lack of intelligence against them.  There is, to be sure , a sucker born every minute.  And as long as that’s true, there will always be a Donald Trump or a Ron DeSantis waiting to pluck them like so many chickens.